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dsfyu404ed on Nov 3, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fifty-three year old nuclear missile accident reve...

> There was absolutely no chance at any point of a nuclear explosion

Exactly. Even if the conventional primer went off it's not gonna cause a create the conditions necessary for fission because it wasn't set off by the detonator.

lostlogin on Nov 3, 2017 [–]

There have been other accidents where multistage fail safes failed at multiple stages. I’d stand back.

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